Tiny House Warriors: Solidarity Road Trip!

Aug 15 at 6:45 AM to Aug 18 at 9:45 PM
 
Tiny House Warriors-- Solidarity Road Trip
to OUR WATER GIVES LIFE: WUCWMILCETKWE
Coast to Fraser river Headwaters ( unceded Secwepemc territory) against the TransMountain pipeline/tanker expansion
No consent, no man camps, no pipeline!!!
August 15-19
Victoria-Vancouver-Mt. Robson Provincial Park Secwepemc territory ( return)

Coast Protectors! let's join the frontline Indigenous resistance to the TransMountain pipeline in unceded Secwepemc territory, all the way up to the Sacred headwaters of the Fraser river, to tell TransMountain they will never cross the Rocky mountains!!! 

We have received a call-out from the Tiny House Warriors to join them as welcomed guests on their beautiful lands and to show our visible support of their frontline resistance to the Black Snake, threatening the planet as a whole. So please join the caravan of pipeline-stopping tiny houses to travel as a community of resistance along the 518 km length of the TransMountain pipeline route to where the pipeline is scheduled to enter "B.C" through the Rockies at Mt Robson Provincial Park. 

https://www.facebook.com/events/234468630738226/

BC Parks has been asked by TransMountain CEO Ian Anderson to provide "BC consent" by issuing permitting approval for pipeline access. But besides the obvious idiocy of building pipelines in protected areas, BC Parks cannot provide consent to the TransMountain pipeline wthout free, prior and informed Indigenous consent of the Secwepemc peoples! 

The Victoria-based carbon-free Community Action Bus is tentatively booked to be leaving Victoria B.C on unceded Lekwungen territory on August 15th for a 4-day return trip to show solidarity and support for the Tiny House Warriors and Secwepemc Women's Warrior Society who have been re-occupying strategic parts of their ancestral territory on the path of the pipeline to assert their jurisdiction and to resist this dangerous tar sands expansion, that threatens people, water, climate, the coast, salmon, orcas and all future generations of life. 

We will be stopping at the Safeway at Commercial and Broadway at 10:30 and onto the WatchHouse and Camp Cloud at 11 am (and other points if need be) to pick people up en route.

To reserve a seat on the bus, please etransfer $45 to riseandresistkm@gmail.com along with an email telling us the password to your etransfer and introducing yourself and why you want to be on this trip, helping us get back to you with more information. You can also sponsor a seat on the bus for an Indigenous person or family! Let us know if you need a sponsorship or can sponsor someone. 

Participants on the trip will be supporting the Secwpemec peoples as they continue to assert their unsurrendered Title and rights to their lands and will be bearing witness to the countless rivers and streams threatened by this pipeline and learning first-hand of the provincial and federal government's collusion to ignore Indigenous Rights and Title through the issuing of countless permits to build man camps, cross provincial parks and endanger vital waterways and our coast. 

The Secwepemc have never given their consent for TransMountain to enter and cross their unceded territory. They have never consented to this pipeline entering Mt Robson Provincial Park, in spite of the BC Government issuing permits to allow it. Also contrary to the BC Government's permits, the Secwepemc have also never consented to the development of the hyper-masculinized environment of the 1000 construction-worker man-camps proposed for Blue River. These man-camps to be built in the vicinity of Indigenous communities, will heighten the risk of sexualized violence towards Indigenous women and girls.

The Tiny House Warriors and the Secwepemc Woman's Warrior's Society, have been mobilizing this summer with three tiny houses, re-occupying strategic locations along the path of the TrasnMountain pipeline, which traverses their territory; asserting their inherent rights and responsibilities as land and water protectors on their unceded territories --against TransMountain. 

One of those tiny houses was built in the fall of 2017 on W'sanec teritory by members of the local Victoria community and we are very happy to be able to continue to support the frontline resistance of the Tiny House Warriors in joining wth them on their land this summer. 

People are expected to come prepared to be self-sufficient with their own camping gear and food for five days and four nights and to count on food-sharing and meals with our hosts at the campgrrounds where we plan to stay at Blue River and Mt. Robson. 

We will be engaging in actions at pumping stations along the route with banners, drumming and red cloth to symbolize the link between the MMIW and pipeline infrastructure work camps.

 

Date: 
Wednesday, August 15, 2018 - 06:45